Here's a few questions to consider and answer before you start waving your credit card around:

Your hosting company can make or break you in a very short time. Rushing to judgment when you are comparing features and benefits of the various services that have caught your interest would be a costly mistake on your part.

Once you know what you want in a hosting service and WHY YOU NEED IT, then focus your research tasks on finding those hosts that meet your needs. The best one you can find is the one that completes your online vision by making this task as easy and reliable as possible.

If your site is an interactive ecommerce site or one with more than a few
graphics or product databases, you will need a large site and all those
bells and whistles and then some.

** Do I know enough technology to use HTML to create my web pages and
to use FTP to upload them to my hosting account?

Match Your Website's Mission To Your Hosting Selection

If not, you might want to find services that offer some sort of site
building software you can access online when you need it.

** How many domain names do I want in one account on my site?

Do you need a one page website for a squeeze page or landing page?
One page sites can often get by with a cheaper alternative solution than
a site with a bunch of bells and whistles you won't need or ever use.

If you think you are going to have more than one domain hosted on your
service and are considering hosting more than one website, you might
want to consider a hosting service that allows unlimited domains for the
one price. If you don't have this benefit available, you will have to set up
completely new accounts for each website you dream up...and pay for
each one, also.

If not, you will be searching the web for a good keyword tool and fiddling
around with each of them until you find one that suits your purposes.

If so, you might want to look for a hosting service that will let you focus
on building that content while they handle the routine details that would
just bog you down.

** Do any of the services I'm considering offer a quality keyword search tool
I can use without paying additional fees?

** How large does your site actually HAVE to be?